Enough
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Wed Dec 19 03:38:08 UTC 2007
Christopher Curran wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Murray McAllister wrote:
>>> On Dec 19, 2007 10:40 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The key things are just killing me. I have Seahorse running and it
>>>> is no help at all. It is just too much for me. Since you will not not
>>>> let me write for Fedora without all these things done, I will not
>>>> write
>>>> for Fedora.
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>
>>>> Goodbye
>>>>
>>>
>>> Karl, what steps do you use to generate keys?
>>>
>>> I followed these steps verbatim:
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/UsingGpg/CreatingKeys
>>>
>>> 1. gpg --gen-key (I used all the default values)
>>> 2. gpg --fingerprint your at email.address
>>>
>>> For me this prints something such as the following:
>>>
>>> pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>>> Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
>>> Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious)
>>> <murray.mcallister at gmail.com>
>>> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>>>
>>> Maybe the GPGKEYID is confusing? Using my example, first line (pub),
>>> it is the second hex value (81B3FDEB)
>>>
>>> 3. Upload to MIT: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-keys 81B3FDEB
>>>
>>> 4. To export them, and possibly upload them to make an account: gpg
>>> --export --armor murray.mcallister at gmail > murray_pub.asc
>>> will export my public key to murray_pub.asc
>>>
>>> If you are still around, could you please run through the steps I have
>>> here (even though they are a copy of the website), and let me know how
>>> you go.
>>>
>>> All the best.
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>>> Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB
>>> Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious)
>>> <murray.mcallister at gmail.com>
>>> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18]
>>>
>>>
>> Murray, The last straw is after I got the stupid thing to put my
>> signature into the message back to fedora It didn't do that right.
>> And I just get Sorry your file is currupt.
>>
>> So having made 3 key rings and numerous tries at getting the thing to
>> work I am done. There is something odd about F8 or something I am not
>> aware of is causing trouble. But I'm tired of chasing problems.
>>
>> Everything else seems to work fine.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
> Did you edit the .txt file before applying the key? It didn't
> explicitly say that so that may be your issue.
Geeze you guys take for a stupid jerk? Of course I did! Your fucking
instructions say nothing but the message said to do it so I did.
But good by. I am not going to write for your group because it is way
too hard.
Karl
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
PGP 28AC 2D41 EF25 0417 7166 DD81 44BD ABFC FA8E C752
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